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Tutorial: How to Fish Wire Through Your Walls Using a Magnepull

by John P.

I fell in love with the Editor’s Choice Award winning Magnepull, a tool professional installers use for fishing cables through walls, and I wanted to give it a try. Since we figured this tool would make it easy for anyone to run wires – not just professionals – Mark Z. grabbed a camera and filmed me fishing the cable through the wall so you guys could see how easy it is to do.

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Awesome Ways to Visualize People’s Emotions

February 4, 2011
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People are capable of such a diverse range of emotions, it may surprise you that most express them more when blogging online or text messaging than they would ever admit to in person. Here are some amazingly awesome ways to visualize people’s emotions that you may have never heard of. We Feel Fine We Feel [...]

5 Impressive Flickr Visualizations

January 14, 2011
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When Flickr first appeared on the Internet, it was simply a handy tool to store and view photos. In the capable hands of visualization designers, Flickr has become a nexus of information about how people see the world. Features such as tagging, groups, friend networks, and timestamps enrich each image with social and temporal context. [...]

SawStop Inventor Sticks His Finger in the Spinning Blade

December 2, 2008

Ok, so I told you guys about the SawStop table saw about 6 months ago, and if you’ll recall, this is the table saw that will stop when it senses flesh touching the blade in order to save the roughly 10 fingers that get cut off every day. Well, the inventor of the SawStop, Steve [...]

SawStop – The Safest Table Saw on the Planet

June 1, 2008

If you’re anything like me, you appreciate a nicely built power tool. Seriously, I love the smell of a workshop in the morning! Of course, I’m not as big of a fan of all the bleeding that normally occurs in said workshop… and I tend to do that a lot while I’m building things. So, [...]

The Trojan: World’s First Body Armor Exoskeleton

May 17, 2007

A Canadian named Troy Hurtubise, invented a superhuman body suit specifically designed to be worn by troops and police officers which he claims is capable of stopping a range of weapons fire, blades and even shrapnel from IEDs. This isn’t Troy’s first dance either. He previously invented a suit which was intended to be able [...]

PlasmaCAM Video Review – Fact vs. Fiction

February 7, 2007
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This site has been getting a lot of visitors from the search engines due to my previous posts about the PlasmaCAM CNC Plasma Cutting Machine. These visits have translated into quiet a few questions coming in via my contact form. Several people considering the purchase of a PlasmaCAM have received the DVD from them and [...]

Atmospheric Water Extraction

November 13, 2006

A company called Aqua Sciences was recently put on the Time Best Inventions list for it’s portable water extraction systems. These systems can be deployed to areas affected by disaster to ensure adequate clean water supplies. The 20-foot machine can churn out 600 gallons of water a day without using or producing toxic materials and [...]

Diagnose That Annoying Check Engine Light

November 5, 2006

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